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This thesis covers the issue of Jerusalem in the Arab-Israeli conflict since the British occupation 1917, the main argument is that , contrary to assertions the conflict has defined and redefined their positions regarding the city in different occasions , the construction of nation-states and national identities have been the primary reason for the changes in the definitions. By drawing in the theory of conflict resolution and the literature of nationalism the thesis validates the core argument by close scrutiny of the positions held by the parties to the conflict

Introduction -- Transformation of Party and Election System in Turkey -- Transformation and challenges in Government System in Turkey: 'The Turkish Type of Presidentializm" -- Transformation of Judiciary for a Turkey in Transition: Dynamics and Consequences -- Turkey's Political Economy in International Context -- Transformation of Secularism in Turkey -- Gender Equality in Turkey -- The Changing Dynamics of Protests under Turkey's Authoritarian Transformation: Actors, Repertoires and Strategies of Repression -- (De)Securitization of the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: The Nexus between Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- The Transformation of Migration Governance in Turkey -- Transformation of Turkey's Environmental Policy: A Case of Selective Europeanization? -- Transformation and Challenges in Turkey-EU Relations: A Case of Foreign Policy with Domestic Political Implications -- An Agent-Based Bounded Rationality Analysis Turkey's Relations with Greece -- Turkey-US Relations: From the Catalyst of the Model Country Image to the Reference Point of Defensive Discourses -- Transformation and Challenges in Turkish Foreign Policy: Turkey Russia Relations -- Turkey and the Middle East: The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Power -- Cooperation Amid Transformation: Turkey and International Organizations.

Einleitung -- Partizipation und Politikgestaltung im Autoritarismus -- Forschungsinteresse und –Strategie -- Politische Kontexte und Konstellationen im Iran -- Modi politischer Interessenartikulation -- Merkmale politischen Handelns in autoritären Verhältnissen -- Autoritäre Partizipation und Interessenaushandlung.

"This book argues the domestic Israeli politics have been a key factor in determining Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking in the period from 1988 to the present. It traces developments over this period showing how coalition-building, personalities, and differing views of how Israel should develop, and of how Israel should interact with Palestinians, all had a crucial influence."

The study of Middle Eastern politics at the college level in the United States is fraught with difficulties for both instructor and student alike. For the student, the subject is almost always entirely unfamiliar and too full of details to be grasped let alone mastered in one term or semester. Instability and political turmoil in the area add to the complicated picture. The instructor's task is mainly to help the student overcome these difficulties. He has to provide adequate organization of the disparate material and relate it to the frame of mind the student already has about politics.

The conventional Anglophone wisdom about the Middle East is that "they" are mired in timeless, ancient antagonisms and enduring traditions: virtually changeless. Yet during the careers of today's senior scholars, there have been many surprises: the 1979 Iranian revolution, Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait, two Anglo-American invasions of Iraq, the 2010/11 Arab uprisings, subsequent civil wars in Syria, Libya, Yemen, and elsewhere, and plenty of other events. Each upheaval wreaks havoc with research designs. Visas or research permits for holders of foreign passports or stipends can be revoked. Interlocutors or corner grocers may become suspicious. Security agents may follow you around, noting whom you have coffee with. Men, especially, might have their phones or laptops confiscated. A few have been brutalized. Junior scholars must be nimble, flexible, and defensive. A narrowly defined investigation, possibly framed by texts rather than interviews, is not only safe but potentially lucrative. Interpreting "local voices" brings them to "foreign" audiences and encourages dialogue.

Introduction: an organization on the brink. - Historical context. - Origins of a movement. - The leadership of Hamas. - Ideology of Hamas. - Political engagement. - Military engagement. - Of allies and enemies. - Conclusion: Hamas in the future. - Appendices. Hamas charter. - Hamas 2006 Electoral campaign platform. - Text of 2011 Hamas Fatah National Reconciliation Accord. - Unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah, April 23, 2014

"What role do ideas play in state-building and state behaviour? This book argues that government policies in both foreign relations and domestic politics must always be situated within a broader ideological and societal context. Imad Mansour analyses how governments in the contemporary Middle East have governed internally and acted externally based on societal narratives, narratives which bring together a variety of ideas about a society's history and place in the world. He argues that there is a dominant societal narrative that acts as a primary building block of statecraft, where statecraft is understood as an ongoing set of local, regional and global state-building processes. Mansour investigates the ways in which statecraft in the Middle East has been guided by narratives through a close historical reading and comparative discussion of the political behaviors of six states-Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran-in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first century. His book demonstrates the analytical purchase of narratives in understanding statecraft and explains why governing governments' decisions need to be understood in complex ways."--

Laura Robson examines the interactions between international and regional political economies of oil and water, and the increasingly explicit colonial and postcolonial politics of ethno-national identity centered around the question of Palestine, arguing that the Middle East's emergence as a 'zone of violence' only developed over the past century.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Identity and Foreign Policy as Discursive Practices: A Framework -- Chapter 3: Won't You Be My Neighbour? Discourses of Canada's "Neighbourly Relations" and the War on Terror -- Chapter 4: Crusading Saviour and Condemning Onlooker: Discourses of Canada the Protector and the War on Terror -- Chapter 5: All for One, One for All: Discourses of Canadian Multilateralism and the War on Terror -- Chapter 6: Reimagining Canada? Foreign Policy Discourses in the Age of Trump, Putin and Pandemic Politics -- Chapter 7: Conclusion. .

An anatomy of the increasing sectarianization of conflicts in the Middle East, by some of the leading scholars writing on the region.